Word.ws English Dictionary

epicillin

epicillin noun: a particular aminopenicillin antibiotic.

Noun

epicillin (uncountable)

  1. A particular aminopenicillin antibiotic.

Origin of epicillin

From epi- + -cillin (“6-aminopenicillanic acid derivative”).

Questions about epicillin

What does epicillin mean?
Epicillin means a particular aminopenicillin antibiotic.
What part of speech is epicillin?
Epicillin is a noun.

Words near epicillin in the dictionary

  1. epichoric
  2. epichorion
  3. epichorions
  4. epichromosomal
  5. epicidin
  6. epicillin
  7. epicine
  8. epicingula
  9. epicingulum
  10. epicism
  11. epicisms

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: epicillin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “epicillin.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/epicillin. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.